When Duluth's temperature last week dropped to 25° below zero, it was
thus saluted by a warm-blooded oldster, Manhattan Wit Franklin P.
Adams. Temperatures were even lower elsewhere in the U.S.: at
Montpelier Junction, Vt. it was 45° below, and Gordon, Wis. was almost
paralyzed at 54° below. Most of the U.S., from the Rockies to the
Atlantic and south to Texas, Louisiana and Florida, felt the severest
cold of an extremely...